Radio alert!

I'll be on Open Source , a nationally distributed public radio show based in Boston and hosted by Christopher Lydon, at 7 Eastern, 6 Cen...

Alito, the Italian word.

What does it mean? A quick look at an Italian-to-English translation site shows it means "breath," and that there is a common expr...

Alito and the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Judge Alito made short work of the question whether Congress has the power under the 14th amendment to enact the Family and Medical Leave Ac...

"I see you're in full pumpkin mode."

Is it okay to say that to a colleague who is quite pregnant and wears a bright orange sweater on Halloween?

Happy Halloween.

Two photos from State Street shops:

Media Studies pop quiz.

Media Guy at Ad Age has a pretty funny Media Studies pop quiz , featuring, among other things, a question about Pajamas Media. (Irrelevant s...

Why Alito is a stronger choice than John Roberts.

I wanted President Bush to nominate someone like John Roberts, and I think Samuel Alito in fact deserves to be considered a stronger nominee...

Radio.

Just got a phone call asking me to go on the radio in ten minutes and talk about Alito. Okaaaaayyy. UPDATE: I'm on the break now. It was...

"Scalito."

I'm seeing news reports that President Bush will nominate Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. Bush needs to pick a solid nominee and pu...

Audible Althouse, #16.

Here it is! 49 minutes this time. Topics: why I don't want to talk about the indictment of Scooter Libby, the fall of Harriet Miers, Ju...

"So was the feminist movement some sort of cruel hoax?"

Asks Maureen Dowd in an essay (not buried behind TimesSelect!) that agonizes over the dating and marriage prospects of powerful women: [T]h...

"He is rarely seen without a wig and a pair of sunglasses, a homage to Andy Warhol that began as a Halloween costume last year."

That's a description of Merlin Bronques, "an elusive character who has made a boldface name for himself among scenesters on both c...

"The tragic thing is that at the exact moment when the Republican Party is staggering under the weight of its own mistakes..."

"... the Democratic Party's loudest voices are in the grip of passions that render them untrustworthy," writes David Brooks a...

"Juan, somebody needs to hose you down on this issue."

Brit Hume to Juan Williams just now on Fox News Sunday. Williams had just put strong anti-Bush spin on the Fitzgerald investigation. Wheneve...

Why not do a political vault over the casket of Rosa Parks?

Lawprof Douglas Berman thinks that the real nominee behind the Alito rumors is not Luttig, but Janice Rogers Brown: President Bush "an...

"Most spiritually uplifting musical ever to hit the Broadway stage."

That's a quote from a two-page ad in the Sunday NYT for "In My Life." I have a superlative of my own about the quote: least ef...

Luttig and "super-stare decisis."

Jeffrey Rosen re-airs the topic of "super-stare decisis" -- the notion that the precedential value of some cases is especially st...

It's "a Madison thing. You do it because you are in Madison."

Let's check to see how that Halloween partying on State Street went last night: At midnight, police were estimating that 100,000 peopl...

Is this the third time you've posted that photo?

Yes, but each time it's been different. Can you tell?

"The growing Supreme Court buzz around Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. is reaching highly suspect, Clement-ine proportions."

Underneath Their Robes is not going to be fooled again. The trick is to fill in the blank: Edith Brown Clement is to John Roberts as Samuel...

State Street, pre-Halloween.

It was a beautiful day here in Madison, Wisconsin, with temperatures in the 60s and bright sun (made fall-like by long shadows in mid-aftern...

"The fingerprints of my past were all around me, but I didn't know what they meant."

Many Hispanic Americans are discovering their Jewish ancestry: When she was growing up in a small town in southern Colorado, an area where ...

Post-Miers, a long, unpredictable political game.

The post-Miers battle brews : As he picks another nominee - Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Ci...

"This is exactly the thing that journalists fear most."

I have avoided writing the Plame story. There is too much detail to it for me to analyze it and come to a fair conclusion. A man faces crimi...

Do you mind...

...if I continue not paying any attention to news stories with the word "Plame" in them? That's been my policy up until now, ...

Bush's communication breakdown.

A Miers post-mortem from the Wall Street Journal: Nothing is more important than that President Bush preserve sufficient standing with the p...

Back from radioland.

That was a lively hour on the Joy Cardin show. Were any of you readers listening? There were a number of passionately conservative callers. ...

Will the right's attack on Miers strengthen the Democrats?

Hugh Hewitt , who was Harriet Miers's biggest supporter in the blogosphere, has this op-ed in today's NYT: The right's embrace ...

We're still laughing about "The Apprentice."

Hilarious episode tonight. Pretty boring right up until the end, but the payoff was damned amusing.

"Americans are looking for something moral and just. Something other than this mess in Iraq we are engaged in."

"They need a champion. That champion is you." So said John Edwards, stopping by the UW campus today on his "Opportunity Roc...

After Miers.

Should I say something more about the Miers withdrawal? I keep thinking I should, but somehow I feel so calm about it all. I'm glad that...

What "political settlement" is Senator Kerry talking about?

The Washington Post reports: "The way forward in Iraq is not to pull out precipitously or merely promise to stay 'as long as it tak...

Radio.

I'll be on the Joy Cardin show at 7 a.m. tomorrow, talking about the Miers withdrawal. This show is carried by the WPR "Ideas Netwo...

Mukhtaran Mai to speak in Madison.

Who is Mukhtaran Mai? The world knows Mukhtar Mai for her courage in speaking out about the grotesque gang rape she suffered at the hands of...

"The President needs a brawl."

So said Fred Barnes on Fox News just now, responding to a question about whether Bush could afford a brawl in Congress right now, which is w...

When pink turns to black.

A template change for Harriet Miers's Blog!!! Aw, goodbye Harriet Miers's Blog!!! -- one of the memorable shooting stars of the blog...

Miers withdraws.

Just as I had given up on expecting a withdrawal from Miers she withdraws : Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to be a Supreme Court just...

"That isn't centrist. That's very liberal."

Captain Ed comes out in opposition to Harriet Miers, based on the speech she gave in 1993 to the Executive Women of Dallas, which he's ...

Is it negligent to have a parking garage under a building?

A jury in Manhattan found the Port Authority negligent for allowing public parking under the World Trade Center: It was in the basement gar...

Audible Althouse, #15.

Here 's the new episode. I went over an hour this time. Just a tad though. Topics discussed: what your car says about you, guy cars and ...

When the lawprof proctors the exam.

I've got a question for you law students. Do you like it when the professor proctors the exam (or would you like it)? What does the lawp...

"This wasn't just about a woman drinking a lot of beer. This was a powerful piece of art."

The Japanese artist Tomoko Takahashi drinks 48 bottles of beer then walks across a balance beam -- and has a £5,000 grant to do it. James T...

"She needs to step it up a notch."

That's Lindsey Graham's message to Harriet Miers. And Norm Coleman wants "to get a better feel for her intellectual capacity a...

Madonna's new look: Valerie Cherish!

I knew my beloved Lisa Kudrow "Comeback" character would live on.

"Nashville" -- the Robert Altman movie.

For some reason, I never saw this incredibly highly praised movie when it came out. This was odd, since it was back in the days when I went...

Is she judging you by your car?

Great topic for an article in the big, thick, advertising-padded "Special Section: Cars" in today's NYT. And yet... cars do s...

Steve Colbert's risk.

He's making the right-wing jerk character ... awfully lovable . Last night's "Colbert Report" was brilliant, by the way. I...

Ho, ho, [silence].

The death of a laugh. IN THE COMMENTS: Commenter Ruth Anne is an almost unbeatable contender for best comment on this one. She writes: ...

Beer.

Ad. (Via Canadienne )

Simulblogging Al Franken on "The Daily Show."

Wow, has he fattened up. "The President seems to be yelling at a lot of people right now," according to The Daily News, Franken sa...

I love "Fight Club."

But this list is just nuts. "UK film experts" -- they are apparently all young guys! UPDATE: Here 's a top 50 films list my s...

What cities attract Halloween visitors?

Madison is one. But the authorities are saying we don't want you here! This is a party for insiders only. How do you close a town to ou...

Blue.

Mmmm.... how beautiful: Photographed and manipulated into this form -- from this -- by my son John Althouse Cohen.

A new TNR entry for the "blogoshpere."

Well, that's the way they spelled it . Maybe they're drunk. Or maybe -- gosh -- they're just that impressed by the blogosphere....

Althouse commenters affected by hurricanes.

Readers have noted the return of our regular commenter Elizabeth, who was ousted by Katrina. At the same time, we've lost touch with Vi...

Harriet Miers, "in line with the court's most hallowed traditions."

Andrew Ferguson characterizes the history Supreme Court appoints as "a long march of mediocrity " into which Harriet Miers would ...

Morning on the 7th floor.

Tuesday morning, I arrive at my office on the Seventh Floor of Our Beloved Donor Law Building, grab my coffee mug (the one that doesn't ...

David Lee Roth and Adam Carolla.

They are going to replace Howard Stern who is moving over to Satellite Radio). Do you think Adam Carolla would be better on the radio than ...

"What accounts for this intolerance of abstinence by college students?"

I think that's probably a question that answers itself, but here is an account of efforts to promote abstinence on campus.

Hottest "law porn."

The award goes to ... NYU! Congratulations, NYU! How do you do it? "Dworkin on Dworkin" -- that's so ... exciting! Could Dwor...

The new constitution.

The Iraqis have adopted their constitution. The announcement came today, with the first news of the results for Ninevah, one of the Sunni-d...

Where it's against the law to use the letters W and Q.

Turkey.

"I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be."

RIP, Rosa Parks.

Scary phone.

Talking to Google like it's your friend.

I'm constantly amazed (and amused) by the Google searches that bring people to this blog. (You know, I pay nothing to use Blogger, but I...

Hey!

Audible Althouse got nominated for a BOB ! Best Podcast!